tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-136479592007-12-01T00:21:34.213-05:00LizBlogger144125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13647959.post-37089838630067926192007-11-30T23:49:00.000-05:002007-12-01T00:21:34.239-05:00

His official site. The AP story. This dude has a page cataloging every rock song he could find about Evel Knievel. I was gonna post the lyrics to 2 Skinnee J's "Viva Knievel," but they seem to have completely disappeared from the internet, and I can't understand all of them from listening to the song so I can't transcribe 'em. Alas. Here's a bit I do know, tho': "Evel Knievel, man on a

Liztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13647959.post-1970301509806733952007-05-07T23:11:00.000-04:002007-05-08T00:13:05.577-04:00

Hey, y'all! We're having a really good time here in Ottawa. I wish we could stay for a few more days, because there's so much to do - I feel like we'll barely get the chance to scratch the surface before we'll have to go home on Wednesday. The weather has been gorgeous - beautifully sunny, but still early-spring cool - really, just about perfect, as far as I'm concerned. This is the kind of

Liztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13647959.post-29762118996577115702007-05-03T23:38:00.000-04:002007-05-04T01:33:47.084-04:00

Saturday we will be leaving here bright and early and heading to Ottawa, Canada! I'm so excited - I have never been to Ottawa, and it's been ages since I last visited Canada. We're going there because Johnny is attending this conference, and I am tagging along just for fun. Any excuse to travel! No, I can't really afford it at this point (I got my credit card bill today and it nearly gave me

Liztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13647959.post-92000249902387489032007-05-02T13:44:00.000-04:002007-05-03T04:06:13.952-04:00

Gas is getting pretty expensive here! Lucy is a fuel-efficient little car, but she (like all Minis) takes 91 octane gas, so it's still not really cheap to fill her up. Luckily, I'm not doing much driving these days, so a tank of gas lasts me forever. I will say this for her little brother Bertie - Lucy's MPG is good, but his is significantly better! Johnny is saving a lot of money on his

Liztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13647959.post-42756817860677821322007-04-28T10:48:00.000-04:002007-04-28T12:10:58.972-04:00

Good morning, all! We're at Churchill's Pub so we can watch the West Ham v. Wigan football match. Sorry if that pic seems a tad small - I'm going back to using smaller pics in the body of my posts for the time being, as it's the easiest solution I've found to the narrow-browser-window problem I mentioned a few posts ago. If you want to see a bigger version, you can always click on it. I'll

Liztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13647959.post-48141721343104590142007-04-27T16:24:00.000-04:002007-04-27T17:41:05.466-04:00

Well, since it seems beyond the realm of possibility to have both our vehicles working at any one time, and since Bertie is holding up ok while we are waiting for his new fuel pump to arrive (the service people said it'd be alright to drive him for the time being, so we brought him home and have been driving him normally - his "check engine" light came on once for a day, but went off again on its

Liztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13647959.post-22878935764944439782007-04-27T00:53:00.000-04:002007-04-27T02:45:55.542-04:00

R.I.P., Bobby "Boris" Pickett. I didn't even know he was still alive. :(

Liztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13647959.post-18042225468240147012007-04-26T13:55:00.000-04:002007-04-26T15:38:11.152-04:00

I'm banging around under the hood on this site, which is one among many reasons I haven't posted much lately (others include: having visitors, being visitors, and having to clean up our dump of an apartment in between having company and going away for the weekend and having company again). I know this page doesn't render properly when it's viewed in a browser window that's not wide enough.

Liztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13647959.post-1175210692039057792007-03-29T17:45:00.000-04:002007-03-29T20:24:52.056-04:00

So here are all the annoying, irritating, horrible, wretched, awful, and miserable things that have happened to us lately: the sick thingthe car thingI special-ordered some Where's George stamps from Stamp Connection for my 7th Georgiversary (which was March 24th). I tried to be as specific as possible with my (admittedly numerous) special requests - I even called when I placed my online order,

Liztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13647959.post-1175201091498737122007-03-29T16:54:00.000-04:002007-03-29T17:44:51.526-04:00

Apologies for the lack of posts recently... fun_with_cheese and some other members of my DH's family came to visit last week, so I was busy then. I will post pics of all the fun we had soon (some are already up on the Flickr, if you want to hunt for them), but first, I need to rant a bit. As noted in the title, I am sick. I have been sick on and off since about the 12th, and man, am I sick of

Liztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13647959.post-1173846161473008882007-03-14T00:09:00.000-04:002007-03-14T01:22:41.560-04:00

Johnny & Liz are proud to present the newest addition to our family: Our new baby boy! A 2007 MINI Cooper in Astro Black with sunroof and chrome trim! Birthday: March 10, 2007 Length: 145.6 inches Weight: 2634 pounds (give or take) He doesn't have a name yet. Johnny thinks I'm nuts because I want to name the car, but of course he has to have a name! He's our baby! And he's Lucy's little

Liztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13647959.post-1173821898920830162007-03-13T17:46:00.000-04:002007-03-13T18:38:18.936-04:00

Before we could pick up our new baby, we had to drive the old Grey Baron to the lot to trade him in. I took a ton of pictures of our last drive - I won't bore you with them all. Most of them are up on Flickr, if you're interested. Climate controls, radio/tape deck, cup holder... all the important stuff. I added a photo gallery of friends and family - closeup of that below. Anytime I took

Liztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13647959.post-1173814613646389642007-03-13T15:28:00.000-04:002007-03-13T16:36:53.660-04:00

We have been awfully busy lately, and while I should have something like 72 pictures posted by now, I've only got 19. So I'm going to attempt to rectify both my lack of posts and my lack of pictures today - I'm not going to get completely caught up, but I'm gonna give it a good shot. So after our recent misadventures with The Grey Baron, we decided it was time to get rid of him. We figured he

Liztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13647959.post-1173431860450077352007-03-09T03:53:00.000-05:002007-03-09T04:17:40.470-05:00

I don't know what it is, but all of a sudden I am dying for some Buffalo wings!!! Why oh why do we have to live so far away from this place now?? (In case you don't recognize it, that's the Anchor Bar in Buffalo, where Buffalo wings were invented.) There is a place here, actually quite close to us, called Wings 'n Curls, which allegedly has good chicken wings. I wouldn't know, since the one

Liztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13647959.post-1172936537215221302007-03-03T10:28:00.000-05:002007-03-03T10:42:17.236-05:00

We're in Deltona this weekend visiting Johnny's parents, sister, her husband, her kid, and any other various family members who may stop by. This means I will either have a lot of time to get caught up on posting, or I'll have even less time than usual. Here are a couple random pictures, in the interim, just so I don't get hopelessly behind. So, crazy weather in South Florida. One day earlier

Liztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13647959.post-1172132634316173272007-02-25T01:44:00.000-05:002007-02-25T01:57:26.293-05:00

Man, I will never get caught up at this rate. Jeez. Anyway, I'm going to start with what we did last Sunday, because it's pretty easy to sum up: we did nothing. We were gonna go to the Delray Beach Garlic Fest, because a) garlic is great and 2) I wanted to see The Wreckers, who were playing there, but in the end, we were just too tired, and there was too much stuff we needed to do around the

Liztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13647959.post-1172182293232082912007-02-22T17:00:00.000-05:002007-02-22T17:11:33.253-05:00

Jilly Bean got sick of listening to me bitch about free Flickr, so she upgraded me to pro! THANK YOU, Bean!!! She is teh bestest friend evar. I'm still about, uhm, 10 pictures behind, tho', at this point. And since today is Johnny's birthday, I'm going to be out all evening instead of home, avoiding posting. Man. I am still so clearly not used to living somewhere where there's stuff going

Liztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13647959.post-1172037191785056542007-02-20T23:51:00.000-05:002007-02-21T02:07:40.526-05:00

Well, now that I've finally got my pictures from the weekend in order (nevermind that it's just about 10 minutes away from being Wednesday by now), I can begin to tell you about it. Friday was the Rhett Miller show at Studio A. It was good, but poor Rhett totally blew out his voice over the course of the show, so he sounded really rough by the end of it. The setlist, if you care: Melt Show

Liztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13647959.post-1172005652361912212007-02-20T15:01:00.000-05:002007-02-20T16:07:56.030-05:00

Ok, so, I've run into a bit of a problem with the picture thing. Well, two problems, really: more to do, and less time in which to do it. Weekends around here get really busy. We're not home for very long, and I don't have a lot of time to sit around cropping, fixing, resizing, and uploading pictures so I can blog about them. And because we're out doing things, I take a ton more pictures on

Liztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13647959.post-1171668025650828642007-02-16T17:39:00.000-05:002007-02-16T18:20:25.663-05:00

Ok, we're going to see Rhett Miller at Studio A tonight (woohoo!), so I'm posting today's pics now - if I get any good pics at the show, I'll post them tomorrow. Also, check out the Rhett Miller interview in this week's Miami New Times. Ok, so I made my wristbands from that Joann's yarn I got on Tuesday. Oh, had I been dying to knit! I swatched and played around wtih needle sizes last night,

Liztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13647959.post-1171613754677986192007-02-15T23:53:00.000-05:002007-02-16T03:15:54.716-05:00

So. Two days and no pics. I told y'all - Year of Lowered Expectations. I hope you weren't expecting anything more from me. Anyway, I sort of have an excuse for not getting any pics up on V-day. See, we went to see Dick Dale at Churchill's, and I was expecting to be home by about midnight or 1 a.m. and make my post then. But when we got there at 10 p.m., only the first of the three opening

Liztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13647959.post-1171426367664264482007-02-13T22:56:00.000-05:002007-02-13T23:15:08.636-05:00

So here is what I got today in my amazon.com package, and from my nearest Joann Fabrics, which I just located this morning: The yarn is from Joann's. I know I live in the land of heat and no knitting now, but I had to get this. Not only was it 75% off the already-reduced clearance price, but also I saw it, and I immediately thought "wristwarmers." I knew it had to be mine. I'm gonna knit

Liztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13647959.post-1171300846498315142007-02-12T11:32:00.000-05:002007-02-12T13:31:40.810-05:00

A post title like that can only mean one thing: car trouble. For a change, however, it's not Lucy in trouble this time - it's our other car, The Grey Baron. He was stolen at some point overnight last night, from the street in front of our apartment. There had been an attempt to steal him last weekend, but they'd only managed to get into the car and pull out the key slot from the steering

Liztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13647959.post-1171278527711086472007-02-12T05:43:00.000-05:002007-02-12T06:15:42.983-05:00

I've spent some time in the past few days deleting old files off my webspace to make more space for this blog to expand. I managed to free up about 4MB! Kinda sad that I had that much crap just hanging out on my server, huh? I just went through and did a quick revision of my template, to reflect the fact that I've moved, in addition to my usual updates. The biggest change I made was to add

Liztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13647959.post-1170394255242951002007-02-02T00:05:00.000-05:002007-02-02T00:30:55.286-05:00

A sad day for all the rest of us, too: R.I.P., Molly Ivins. I will miss you. The thing I appreciate most about Molly Ivins is that she showed me how to be a liberal and a Southerner, too. Not some namby-pamby whiny liberal, but a wickedly funny, sharp-as-a-tack, righteously pissed-off Southern liberal. Without her showing the way, I might not have thought it was even possible to be all those

Liz